Roll-Tide76 started a poll called the "Best Football State" www.sportsline.com/mcc/messages/thread/12443182, which left out a few important states, but got me thinking so I want to tip my hat to him anyway. Hypochondriac_2 posted a link to ESPN sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/story in that thread where they had their own way of sorting through the states and it contained a few good statistics that related to college football. So I tip my hat to him, too.

Several posters believed it is important to consider the overall population of the states with regard to their college football achievements. I looked up the populations of the states in Roll-Tide76's poll, then combined that information with some of the data on the ESPN site and thought I'd throw in Oklahoma even though it wasn't in the original poll.

**** NOTE: FOR YEARS 1934-Present. 1934 was the beginning of the Heisman Trophy.

Starting Data:

STATE POPULATION DI TEAMS HEISMANS NATIONAL TITLES

Oklahoma 3,547,884 3 6 7

Alabama 4,557,808 4 2 8

Florida 17,789,864 7 7* 9*

Texas 22,859,968 10 6 6

California 36,132,147 7 9 8

Ohio 11,464,042 8 7 6

*Thanks to poster 'stoptherun' for pointing out errors. I used old data that only ran through the end of 2005 season. It is now recalculated. Delaware and South Dakota are 0 DI/0 Heismans/0 National Titles. Idaho has 2 DI teams/0 Heismans/0 National Titles.